Read the full judgment text of HCPI 000684/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 May 1997.
1. On 23 January 1992, at about 5-30 o'clock in the morning, the plaintiff, who was then a captain in 10 th Gurka Rifles , got out of bed in his quarters. He went to his kitchen to boil some water. He turned the knob of a small gas burner. There was an immediate explosion. The plaintiff was badly burned.